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Even Rouault Sep 26, 2024

It has been ages since the last time I blogged. Here it is "Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$":
https://erouault.blogspot.com/2024/09/those-concepts-in-geospatial-field-that.html

Those concepts in the geospatial field that have cost us millions of $$$

Every domain has its baggage of concepts, which at first sight don't appear to be that terrible, but which are in practice. Let's start with...

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André Stumpf Sep 27, 2024

@EvenRouault Can we add GPKG's coordinate precision which allows to map the position of an atom to the rant list? https://github.com/opengeospatial/geopackage/issues/365

Support for TWKB or other compact geometry encoding · Issue #365 · opengeospatial/geopackage

The vector data in geopackage is today encoded as WKB, a well-defined and well known way of formatting spatial geometries. However, since all coordinates are encoded as two 64bit double values, the...

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Even Rouault

@andrestumpf There are people actually requiring that level of precision, so we shouldn't exclude them. Well, maybe not at the angstrom level, but tens of millimeters is something geodesists routinely want to achieve. At least some I've interacted with... That said the main issue of TWKB or friends in GeoPackage is that would make it a non-interoperable extension...